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All-girls’ chess match held in Santa Rosa
Cassandra Wright, 6, expresses the many emotions of a tense chess game at Ursuline High School in Santa Rosa during a tournament put on by Chess for Kids Inc., of Santa Rosa. KENT PORTER/The Press Democrat By MARTIN ESPINOZA THE PRESS DEMOCRAT Published: Saturday, February 20, 2010 at 5:40 p.m. Last Modified: Saturday, […]
Family Fun Day marks grand opening of City Center Plaza
By Heidi Bailey It was nothing but fun last Saturday at Rohnert Park’s first Family Fun Day at the new City Center Plaza in downtown Rohnert Park. On a bright sunny morning, a crowd of people stood outside two stone pillars marking the entrance to the new park as RP Mayor Amie Breeze gave a […]
Your move, Rohnert Park
Nonprofit chess club begins classes at Boys and Girls Club By Heidi Bailey September 10, 2009 08:48 pm Blitzing, blundering, blocking and attacking. No, its not football. It’s a game that’s been around for centuries known as chess. The thought of chess may bring images of old timers sitting around with their scotch and tobacco pipes, […]
Too young to learn? Nope!
I just taught my 6 year old niece to play chess… My family kept saying… “I don’t know, she’s still pretty young.” I said, “Don’t worry, she’ll understand what she understands and we won’t go any faster than that”. We played for over 4 hours! I thought “Should I bring out the standard vertical teaching […]
Simultaneous Games
“A student that I have watched attend the Chess for kids workshops for several months played me in a with several other students. He came the closest out of all the kids, some of them several years older, to beating me. After class, I told his mother this and how impressed I was with his […]
2013 Girls Tournament Photos
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2013 All Girls Chess Tournament
All ages and skill levels are welcome. This is a fun low key competitive event designed to improve skills, self confidence, and self esteem. Players are grouped in quads of similar grade levels and will play a total of three matches. The winner of each quad receives a trophy and prizes awarded to the runners […]
2012 Tournament Photos
Here’s a peek at the 2012 All Scholastic Tournament
A Review of Key Chess Studies
SUMMARY: Langen (1992) claims that “children who learn chess at an early age achieve more in the traditional maths and sciences. Chinese, European and American research all find significant correlational values after just one year of systematic chess exposure.” Langen also states: “The most striking benefits are those associated with problem-solving and creativity.” (more…)
Chess and Standard Test Scores
SUMMARY: Regular (non-honors) Elementary students who participated in a school Chess Club showed twice the improvement of non-chess players in Reading and Mathematics between third and fifth grades on the Texas Assessment of Academic Skills. In fifth grade, regular track chess players scored 4.3 TLI points higher in Reading (p